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I\u2019m in the middle of one of those weekends where I\u2019ve sparsely had any time for myself; even more so than usual.\u00a0 The kids are still in this weird adjustment period of daylight savings as well as simply adapting to their general schedules, and this particular morning, they were up at 7 am, not long after I had gotten up to begin my day, and I was completely unprepared as far as having breakfast ready, but it didn\u2019t matter that my kids were ready to begin their day.<\/span><\/p>\n Instead of a 60-90 minute quiet time reprieve in the middle of the day, this was a day in which there were two concurrent birthday parties happening at the same time, so mythical wife and I decided to divide and conquer and take each kid to a different party, in different parts of town.\u00a0 I watched #2 plow through three slices of pizza, a ridiculously gargantuan slice of cake, and a bowl of dipping dots, all while playing a bunch of really shitty games at Chuck-E-Cheese where kids are lucky to get maybe 15 seconds of game time before the credits expire and I can\u2019t imagine paying actual money for gaming time with such absurdly unfavorable math, and I felt fortunate to be on a timed party free-play.<\/span><\/p>\n Needless to say, with the kids down, instead of relaxing, I found myself playing catch-up on things that I didn\u2019t get to do on a typical Saturday, which meant hopping on the treadmill to get some exercise, while simultaneously doing my daily Duolingo that I typically prefer to do early in the morning before everyone else is really up.\u00a0 And then I decided to go run some errands while some stores were still open, all for the sake of not having to them during Sunday, when I would inevitably have to have a kid in tow while trying to do them, and by the time I\u2019m sitting here it\u2019s past ten, and I don\u2019t feel like I have adequate time to really watch something from my endless list of crap that I want to watch, so I bring myself to sit here to write in my brog that nobody knows exists.<\/span><\/p>\n But hey, at least I got to go be on top of the drop of Vince Gilligan\u2019s Pluribus<\/em>, and watched the first two episodes on Friday night, and the show was as good as I would have hoped it would be, so that\u2019s something remotely positive amidst feeling buried by life and looking out the metaphorical window of the world to see the United States completely at peace with itself forcibly starving its own citizens but this post wasn\u2019t meant to be political as much as I just wanted to take that dig in lieu of making a dedicated post about how fucked America is.<\/span><\/p>\n However, getting to the point of this post, the biggest occurrence to happen over this weekend was undoubtedly the fact that #1 lost her first tooth, and I\u2019m just not ready for this at all.\u00a0 Because when it comes to teeth, most everyone knows that the vernacular for them are baby teeth, and when they fall out, they\u2019re supplanted by your adult teeth, and I am so not fucking ready to hear the word \u201cadult\u201d at all, associated with my five-year old child.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s crazy, it was just like a few weeks ago in which #1 pointed out to mythical wife and I that she had a wiggly tooth, and we were both having the same reaction about how, wtf has all this time flown by to where our kid is now having her baby teeth starting to fall out.\u00a0 A cursory internet search confirms that five is a fairly common age for the first teeth to begin falling out, and I have memories of my own childhood of when I had my first loose tooth, where my dad tied a piece of floss around it before yanking it out, and the vague memory of feeling like I\u2019d been punched in the mouth, with a similar result of there being a lot of blood.<\/span><\/p>\n But as unfortunate as it was that I couldn\u2019t be there when it happened, there wasn\u2019t really much blood when #1\u2019s first tooth came out.\u00a0 I had literally just taken her to the dentist just says prior, and I saw the X-rays showing the adult teeth rapidly growing underneath and how to anticipate the first tooth to come out soon, and it was still a harrowing moment seeing those photographs of all these adult teeth starting to grow beneath the baby ones, and again I\u2019m struggling to hear the word adult at all when it comes to my kid, because she\u2019s still just five freaking years old.<\/span><\/p>\n Inevitably, like the Korean blood in her body demands, questions about the Tooth Fairy and the whole concept of getting money for teeth came up pretty immediately, and now I\u2019ve got to start ponying up cash to put under her pillow and hope to not wake her along the way.\u00a0 Plus there\u2019s the whole question of just how much money to give for a tooth; when I was a kid, it was $2 a tooth, but my parents quashed the whole mythos of the Tooth Fairy real quick and just gave me cashmoney on the spot after an extraction.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s going to be a tricky next few years, given the fact that I have two kids of close age who will be inevitably be periodically dropping teef throughout the next 8-9 years, and me having to keep up with needing adequate cash to fund all these damn teef and <\/em>keep up with inflation.<\/span><\/p>\n But heaven help me that there are anything at all in my little girls\u2019 bodies that are considered adult, even if they\u2019re pretty much right on schedule when it comes to the first teeth falling out.\u00a0 They\u2019re always going to be babies to me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m in the middle of one of those weekends where I\u2019ve sparsely had any time for myself; even more so than usual.\u00a0 The kids are still in this weird adjustment period of daylight savings as well as simply adapting to their general schedules, and this particular morning, they were up at 7 am, not long … Continue reading Dad Brog (#158): I\u2019m not ready for anything prefaced by \u201cadult\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,79,100,193,199,192,158,103,69],"class_list":["post-50935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-dad","tag-exercise","tag-kids","tag-milestone","tag-motherland","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50937,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50935\/revisions\/50937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}